Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank all of you for your presentations today. I found them most fascinating. All six of them have been great.
What I hear about over and over is this integration of what's going on in North America. We talk about the integration of our security, so we talk about the border issues, and we talk about the integration of our economy.
I represent the riding of Newmarket—Aurora, which has a tremendous number of auto supply parts manufacturers. I recognize fully that those parts are often travelling back and forth across the border to create one motor vehicle.
How do we as Canadians establish ourselves firmly, given the size of the American population and their influence globally? How do we retain our influence globally? How do we retain our influence and a strong voice in the North American market? What do we do to make sure that happens, given that all of these integrations are going on?
Mr. Robertson, you spoke about “relationship”, and I would like you to expand on that, if you would. I am a person who firmly believes that relationship is how we are going to maintain strong voices. I love the fact that you've talked about us as parliamentarians extending a hand in friendship to our counterparts in the States. I would love it if you could provide me with a list of people to whom I could start making phone calls, writing letters, and introducing myself. I'm a new parliamentarian, so this is contingent on my doing that.
Perhaps each of you could comment briefly on how you see us retaining our own strong voice within this context.